Vice President Joe Biden pulled exactly zero punches addressing the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, saying that the United States will pursue the terrorists behind the beheading of two journalists “to the gates of hell,” a phrase he also famously employed in 2012 describing the nation’s pursuit of Osama Bin Laden.

+ Just to make things interesting, 200 U.S. troops are on their way to an annual exercise called Rapid Trident which happens to take place in, you guessed it, western Ukraine. The exercise will be the first time the U.S. will have a presence in the country since the conflict with Russia began.